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Pallette may have gained weight, but he never lost his underlying virility. Pallette and Greenstreet both died in 1954. Each had retired a few years earlier due to age and ill health. Pallette made his last two films, Suspense and vintage intl In Old Sacramento in 1946—the first for Monogram, and the second vintage intl for Republic, two of the worst studios in Hollywood. Plagued by diabetes and Bright's disease, Greenstreet ended his brief cinematic career in 1949 with the marvelously awful Flamingo Road for Warners and the well-cast but forgettable vintage intl Malaya for MGM. A year earlier the Supreme Court had ordered the major motion picture companies to divest themselves of their theater chains. Television had already started to drain away the audience and change the economics of the entertainment industry. The studio era of American film was over. Fat men might find a single comic character role to repeat weekly on television, but the system that allowed Greenstreet, Pallette, and others to explore a variety of challenging roles no longer existed.
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